Bank Holiday For Eid ul-Adha/Bakrid 2025: Are Banks Closed On Friday, June 6?

Indian banks are up for a long weekend from June 6 to June 8th. On Friday, banks will be closed in Kerala to celebrate the Eid ul-Adha/Bakrid 2025 festival. The majority of banks will be closed on June 7th for the nationwide celebration of Bakrid in India. Eid-UL-Adha is the second most holiest festival of Muslims across the world, after Ramadan.

Bank Holiday On June 6:

On this day, Banks will be closed in cities like Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram for the celebration of Id-ul-Ad'ha (Bakrid), as per RBI's list of holidays.

Bank Holidays On June 7:

Meanwhile, banks will be closed in cities like Agartala, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Chennai, Guwahati, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, and Srinagar.

June 7th also falls as first Saturday of the month.

Eid-ul-Adha/Bakrid 2025:

The first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah 2025 have begun from 28th May 2025, following the sighting of the moon. The 9th of Dhul Hijjah (the Day of Arafah) will be on the 5th of June 2025 and the 10th of Dhul Hijjah (Eid al Adha) will be on the 6th June 2025. As the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar calendar, the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah take place 10 days earlier each year, as per Islamic Relief Org.

Bakrid 2025 is a 3-day festival, hence, will be celebrated from June 6-June 8 in the majority of Islamic countries. In Saudi Arabia especially, the new moon of Dhul Hijjah 1446 AH was sighted on the night of Tuesday, May 27, 2025, and that led to the first day of Dhul Hijjah on May 8.

Accordingly, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Indonesia, Qatar, UAE, and Iran will be celebrated on June 6th.

But countries like India, Nigeria, Morocco, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and New Zealand, Bakrid will be celebrated on June 7th, and will eventually end on June 9.

Eid al-Adha is also known as Eid II or "Greater Eid" and is practised in honour of Abraham who chose to sacrifice his son to showcase his faith in God. Abraham showed the epitome of obedience by a readiness to sacrifice his son when God commanded. Not just that Abraham's son also willingly accepted to be sacrificed when his father Abraham told about seeing a vision of sacrificing him. Pleased by the father and son's faithfulness and obedience, God sends out a ram for Abraham to sacrifice instead of his son. And hence, the rituals of Bakrid is followed by Muslims across the globe.

Meanwhile, all banks will be closed on Sunday, June 8th due to default holidays.